Saudi Arabia pledged 0 million in humanitarian aid for Iraq on Tuesday, to be disbursed through the United Nations to those in need regardless of sect or ethnicity, state media reported. King Abdullah "has ordered 0 million in humanitarian aid to the brotherly people of Iraq affected by the painful events, including the displaced, regardless of their religion, sect or ethnicity," a foreign ministry spokesman told the official SPA news agency. The United Nations says 1.2 million Iraqis have been driven from their homes by violence this year, hundreds of thousands of them by a three-week-old Sunni militant offensive that has swept up a swathe of territory **rth of Baghdad. Sunni Saudi Arabia has deeply strained relations with Iraq's Shiite-led government.
07-01-2014, 09:42 PM
Saudi pledges $500 mn in humanitarian aid for Iraq
Saudi Arabia pledged 0 million in humanitarian aid for Iraq on Tuesday, to be disbursed through the United Nations to those in need regardless of sect or ethnicity, state media reported. King Abdullah "has ordered 0 million in humanitarian aid to the brotherly people of Iraq affected by the painful events, including the displaced, regardless of their religion, sect or ethnicity," a foreign ministry spokesman told the official SPA news agency. The United Nations says 1.2 million Iraqis have been driven from their homes by violence this year, hundreds of thousands of them by a three-week-old Sunni militant offensive that has swept up a swathe of territory **rth of Baghdad. Sunni Saudi Arabia has deeply strained relations with Iraq's Shiite-led government.
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